Dear Friend Sorry to impose, but we got your name from an Internet search of venture capital contacts. I am sure you get these requests all the time...YES, we are ANOTHER "Dot Com " company. We are called BenefitsAll. Can you help us, or lead us in the right direction, to investors, or help us to get the word out ? Our site is up, running and being "soft marketed". Our results are quite impressive. We have hundreds of retailer partners and member/shoppers signed up. We also have dozens of organizations who have signed up with us and all with WITH NO ADVERTISING. At this point we have a small dedicated staff and a highly professional board of advisors from various industries. Our staff and advisors have helped us achieve goals we would have never thought possible. We completed our business plan a few months back and are only now today 2/5/01) presenting it to investors. We wanted to make sure we had a workable concept before we asked others to risk their money. Our Business plan is available upon request. Below is a quick summary. Call or email us for more information. Our phone # is 818 707 1723. Ask for Donn Delson at ext 4# Company Overview BA is an online fundraising site that will link nonprofit organizations and their members with major online retailers, wherein they can shop and earn rebates. BA will retain 35 percent of the rebate given by the retailer as the nonprofits' shop online. BA's goal is to create a portal that will bring shopping traffic from the site to the retailers. The demographic value of this traffic will eventually create a secondary revenue stream from advertisers. Founders Donn Delson and Robert Breines strongly believe in this concept. Rather than selling a product, carrying inventory, and shipping it, BA intends to carry minimal overhead. Instead it will be the "Black Box" intermediary that will provide a service, charge a small percentage fee for each transaction, and is the conduit for these transactions. Once the software is developed, the majority of expenses will be devoted to sales and marketing. Delson and Breines feel so strongly that they have chosen to invest the initial seed capital to build, test and validate the working model before asking others to invest. Industry Analysis and Competition The universe of online shopping rebate sites consists or about 12 companies, of which the majority are focused on schools exclusively. One of these incorporates schools and charities and a few target charities only. There is one site that caters to religious organizations and none to the knowledge of BA that targets civic/arts, service organizations and clubs. None offer the winning combination of high rebates, depth of retailers, ability to change and channel contributions. One of the challenges for BA will be to build awareness of its uniqueness as the only site that serves the broad spectrum of organizations. Competitive Edge BA starts with a critical competitive edge: there is no competitor known to us that can claim to afford the user the almost limitless choice of beneficiaries for their online shopping rebates. Each time a consumer or business agent shops through the BenefitsAll site they can choose which organization they desire to benefit from the rebate earned. Furthermore, BA offers significantly more merchant choices than any other site, with more than 350 retailers versus 250 for the next closest competitor. It promotes the availability of rebates up to 30 percent of purchase price, compared to a high of 20 percent from the next closest competitor. BA has experienced positive initial success. To realize its growth goals, BA requires additional capital to fully implement its advertising and promotional efforts, develop brand awareness, secure new organizations, and to build awareness and regular use by their membership. Thank you in advance for your consideration. Please contact us for the full plan that we can email and or discuss with you personally